One might have thought that theorizing is an integral part of what Professors do:
"John Marshall Law School professor John Gorby has filed a lawsuit against his employer, saying he was improperly punished for what he believes were innocuous comments to a student after class.
The student, who is Jewish, was doing well in class and Gorby pondered whether his religious training -- which from a young age encouraged critical analysis of written Scripture -- explained why Jews pass the bar at higher rates than African Americans.
Gorby opined that blacks were brought up in religions such as Baptist churches that "emphasize an emotional and spiritual religious experience rather than discussion and debate about the meaning of scriptural language." Gorby is neither Jewish nor African-American....
He thinks the whole episode represents a stifling of the academic freedom that should allow him and other professors to have provocative discussions with students about subjects such as how to boost bar-passage rates that -- according to his lawsuit -- have ranged as low as 12 percent some years for African Americans at John Marshall compared with about 90 percent for Jews.
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By blaming the very poor pass rates of blacks on environmental factors he was actually being "liberal". Many people who know about IQ tests and black scores on them would incline to an explanation of black failure in terms of black genetics. They would see the low black pass rates as excellent validation for the IQ tests, in fact.
